Conversion Conflict

Updated Sept. 24, 1999 2:34 p.m. ET

In a recent "Houses of Worship" column ("Conversion Controversy ") Mr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. defended the Southern Baptist Convention's prayer guide encouraging Baptists to pray for the conversion of the Jews. I have no quarrel with Mr. Mohler's understanding of the requirements of toleration in a democracy: toleration must certainly allow for efforts to persuade others and toleration cannot mean that people must relinquish sincere belief in the truth of religious claims. And I can understand Mr. Mohler's view...